Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique

Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sexuality. How does one address this organically in psychotherapy? What role does it play in therapeutic action? Who brings it up, the therapist or the patient?

Daniel José Gaztambide addresses these questions by offering a rigorous decolonial approach that rethinks theory and technique from the ground up, providing an accessible, evidence-informed reintroduction to psychoanalytic practice. He re-examines foundational thinkers from three traditions-Freudian, relational-interpersonal, and Lacanian-through the lens of revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, and offers a detailed analysis of Fanon's psychoanalytic practice.

Preface. - Introduction. - Part I: Theoretical Foundations of Decolonial Psychoanalysis. - Chapter 1: Returning to the Clinical and Critical Freud. - Chapter 2: The Return of Ferenczi and the Advent of the Relational Tradition: Promises and Limitations. - Chapter 3: Retrieving the Decolonial Lacan: The Subject Between Psyche and Society. - Chapter 4: Retrieving the Clinical Fanon: From Healing Relationships to Transformative Systems. - Chapter 5: Putting Freud on Fanon s Couch: The Birth of Decolonial Psychoanalysis. - Chapter 6: Putting the Pieces Together: Theoretical Synthesis and Clinical Illustrations. - Part II: The Evidence Base for A Decolonial . - Approach: A Synthesis of Relevant Literatures. - Chapter 7: The Brain is Structured Like a Language: The Embodied. - Associative Brain. - Chapter 8: Attachment Between Culture and Society: Relationality in Social Context. - Chapter 9: Integrating Multicultural Psychology and Basic Science: Psychotherapy between. - Attachment and Social Rank. - Conclusion: A Psychotherapy for All. - Bibliography. - Index.